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David BlatnerKeymasterWhat about using Data Merge to make a table for the directory?
David BlatnerKeymasterI think you can control some of that with the options in PDF2ID. You might look at the options there to see if you can make a “cleaner” INDD file.
You can combine text frames together (on the same page) with this:
David BlatnerKeymasterI don't think this changed in CS6. I don't remember ever being able to apply paragraphs styles via object styles when the text frame was threaded.
October 2, 2012 at 10:17 am in reply to: Reducing/enlarging a placed image-how much is acceptable? #63275David BlatnerKeymasterIt all comes down to quality and your tolerance for seeing jaggies. For a pixel image that will be printed, you generally want to have 1.4 or 1.5 times your halftone frequency. In other words, if your printer says you'll be printing at 150 lpi, then you're going to want your images to have an “effective resolution” of about 225 ppi.
(Effective resolution means after scaling. The Links panel can show you your effective resolution.)
So if you import a 300 ppi image, you can scale it up to 125% and still get 225 ppi. (pixels per inch… some people call this dpi or dots per inch)
We wrote at great length about this in “Real World Scanning & Halftones” (you can probably still find the 3rd edition used somewhere!)
September 26, 2012 at 6:07 am in reply to: Bookmarks are jumbled after exporting document as pdf #63251David BlatnerKeymasterYour file is not too big, and you don't have too many bookmarks. This should work.
Perhaps try exporting the file as IDML, then opening that IDML back in InDesign. That should get rid of any weird corruption issues…? Clealry something is going wrong.
David BlatnerKeymasterI have two suggestions:
- Use Illustrator; or
- Use Photoshop
:)
Illustrator CS6 actually has a new “gradient along a path” feature.
September 25, 2012 at 5:27 am in reply to: Bookmarks are jumbled after exporting document as pdf #63233David BlatnerKeymasterVery strange. Please try exporting the PDF with different presets or PDF settings, such as PDF/X3 or as PDF (Interactive) to see if that changes anything.
Is this all one InDesign document? Or is it in a book panel?
David BlatnerKeymasterYup! Turn on Ignore Text Wrap in the Text Frame Options dialog box (for the text frame, not the image, of course):
September 21, 2012 at 8:10 am in reply to: Links palette not linking to Photoshop anymore. Help? #63195David BlatnerKeymasterDavid BlatnerKeymasterI know that Adobe fonts can be embedded in DPS apps; I think they may have also included epubs in that.
Here's another service that licenses embeddable fonts: https://www.fontspring.com
David BlatnerKeymasterThe best solution would be to place each chord in its own text frame and anchor it in place. That is, put the chord “A” in a frame by itself, then anchor it. If you're in CS5.5 or later, you can anchor quickly by placing the text frame where you want it, then dragging the little blue frame in the upper right corner of the text frame to the anchor position you want.
David BlatnerKeymasterMaybe try exporting as pdf/x4 and then using Acrobat Pro to convert to PDF/x1a.
Obviously, it shouldn't work this way, so you shouldn't have to use workarounds.
Another option: Try exporting the file as IDML, then open the idml file, then try exporting to pdf from this new version. Maybe it's some weird document corruption?
David BlatnerKeymasterWow, that is very weird. I would try different PDF export presets (like try pdf/x3 or pdf/x4?) just to see if that changes anything. Try rebuilding your InDesign preferences. Try exporting from a different account on your computer, or a different computer. This can help you identify why something is going wrong.
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https://www.lynda.com/trial/ind…..ignsecrets
Then, check out the video on FindChangebyList on this title. I actually format the play Hamlet in this movie.
and check out my short title on grep here.
David BlatnerKeymasterWeird. But I'm confused: You said that if you export the whole PDF (as a single pdf) with the same pdf preset, it's small? But if you export just one page, it's big?
If you're having trouble exporting an IDML, then there's likely some (particularly bad) file corruption in there. You'll likely going to have to go through the file and one-by-one remove objects/frames/stories/images/whatever until you can get ID to export an IDML successfully.
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